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COLLEGES: Baseball: The 2015 U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association national tournament will be held at War Memorial Stadium and will be hosted by the Apprentice School, just as it was in 2008 and '09. The tournament will run from May 10-14, with a banquet and home run derby on the first day -- a Sunday. Football: Virginia State named Byron Thweatt, a former Virginia linebacker and Richmond Spiders assistant coach, as the Trojans' head coach. He replaces Latrell Scott, who took the Norfolk State job after leading VSU to the 2014 CIAA championship and its first NCAA Division II playoff victory, as well as the 2013 CIAA Northern Division title. Thweatt coached linebackers...

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Why did he leave? Running back-returner Bobby Rainey was claimed by the Cleveland Browns after the Ravens cut him before the season. Spending the early part of the 2012 season on the practice squad, he was placed on injured reserve in November. Week 12 highlights: Rainey only rushed for 35...

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COLLEGES:Baseball:The 2015 U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association national tournament will be held at War Memorial Stadium and will be hosted by the Apprentice School, just as it was in 2008 and '09.The tournament will run from May 10-14, with a banquet and...

PRO HOCKEY:Nick Cousins scored 2:32 into overtime Friday night to give the Lehigh Valley Phantoms a 3-2 AHL win at Scope Arena in the first of a two-game series against the Norfolk Admirals.
The Admirals have lost four games in a row — all by one goal...

It was a mixed weekend for some of the Fuller brothers, who are quite familiar to Virginia Tech fans. Two of the Hokies' football program's most prolific family are now in the NFL.
Corey Fuller grabbed the winning touchdown pass to give Detroit a...

For today, Sonny D yields the floor to Newport News native Charlie Flowe, a radio personality in Philadelphia who attended Sunday's victory by the Jets over the Steelers at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.Flowe graduated from Ferguson High and...

On a reasonably quiet weekend for Virginia-based NFL players, former William and Mary star Jonathan Grimes became a workhorse for Houston, averaging more than 4 yards per rush on his 13 carries as the Texans won in Cleveland.
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A decade after he caught a touchdown pass from Bryan Randall that gave Virginia Tech the ACC championship in its first year in the conference, veteran receiver Eddie Royal is back in business with the San Diego Chargers.The last of his nine catches for 81...

Yet again, the San Diego Chargers are winning key games late in the regular season. This time, they can credit a lot of guys who are familiar with Virginia.
The Chargers looked all but finished Saturday night against the 49ers, trailing by 21 points in a...

Five years into his career as an NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin had steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to four playoff berths, three division titles, two Super Bowls and one world championship. No one considered him another Lombardi, Walsh or Belichick, but the...

While Michael Vick and the Jets fell flat against the Bills in a game that was relocated from the Buffalo area to Detroit because of heavy snow in western New York, the week was otherwise mostly quiet for Virginia-area players.The Giants' Rashad...

NFL experts say the Patriots will struggle more with Jerod Mayo out of the lineup. Unfortunately, they'll have to find out, since Mayo was carted off the field at Buffalo on Sunday after hurting his knee while making his fifth tackle of the day.
Mayo,...

Russell Wilson was at his elusive best during the Seattle Seahawks' 27-17 victory over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field.
Wilson, who grew up in Richmond and had plenty of family members watching in person, rushed for 122 yards -- a Monday Night...

William and Mary record-setting running back Jonathan Grimes, 24, is in his third stint with the Houston Texans. He also has been with the New York Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars.Primarily because of a numbers game, the undrafted 5-foot-10, 207-pounder...

When many of us last saw Logan Thomas, he was getting knocked woozy in Virginia Tech's Sun Bowl loss to UCLA on New Year's Eve. Even before then, he took plenty of criticism -- often deservedly so, he admitted -- for inaccurate passing.But Saturday night,...

The Washington Redskins announced Monday they will host joint training camp practices with the New England Patriots in Richmond on Aug. 4-6.
"Thanks to the Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training Center, we have a facility that has the capabilities...

Move aside, World Cup. Hold your run, baseball. Take a seat, summer-league hoops. Training camp is about to begin. The Washington Redskins (3-13 in 2013) will be holding a training camp for 2 1/2 weeks at the Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training...

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Washington Redskins wrapped up their slate of preseason games Thursday night with a 24-10 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium.
Both teams leaned almost exclusively on their reserves in the exhibition finale,...